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The Art Surrounding Campus

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Julio Fine Arts Gallery Blog Post  Kristen Koczot  Midterm week is winding down- that means more time to relax and appreciate the artwork that is on Loyola’s campus! If you are walking outside by the chapel, Amy Ritter’s mobile home is still on display. This work is known as a pop-up display . The piece is of a mobile home printed and pasted on cement with wheatpaste. This pop-up is only here for a little while longer so be sure to check it out!  Before entering the gallery take a look at the work displayed in the cases outside the gallery. The current display features artwork created by Chris Lonegan’s watercolor class. The topic for this assignment was structured around portraits. Take a look to see the different perspectives of the students and how each portrait is unique in their own way. The watercolor course offered at Loyola is an upper elective course that a student can take after completing SA224 2D Design or SA225 Drawing.  This month’s exhibit called It Means

CALLING ALL LOYOLA UNIVERSITY STUDENT ARTISTS!!

Loyola Student Art Competition A partnership of the Fine Arts Department and Loyola Advancement What You Need to Know: This Student Art Competition seeks to recognize and support the creativity of Loyola students. The winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Loyola Bookstore, and their work will not only be featured in an exhibition in the Student Gallery outside of Boulder 2.0, but will also be digitized and added to a magnet that will be mailed out to THOUSANDS of alumni, donors and friends of Loyola University. Requirements: For this competition, artists are tasked with creating artwork that generates a sense of place at Loyola or a nostalgic reminder of campus. Works could include, but are not limited to, watercolors, sketches, digital artwork, mixed media, sculptures, etc. and can depict a building, statute, bridge or anything that reminds alumni of Loyola. Any medium is eligible, but submissions must be original and must be able to b

The Meaning Behind The Personal

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On February 13, Baltimorean artist Jackie Milad's exhibit It Means Desert, Desert  opened at the Julio Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibit is vibrant in color, texture, and sound. It is also very pink! When I first was helping install this exhibit, I was honestly a bit confused. Looking at the work, I found myself trying to find the meaning behind the pieces. Why did the artist do this? What is she trying to say here? All of the pieces are in the form of collage and are actually previous works of the artist. Milad has taken these archived works, re-evaluated each one, cut them up, and created new material. And my being confused is exactly what the artist wants. Each aspect of the display is purposely made difficult to see the meaning. It is completely open to interpretation. While each piece has symbols from Milad's imagination and icons with her Egyptian and Honduran heritage, it is very easy to find your own meaning or identity in each piece. The artist wanted the work to be